The Peasants' Revolt: Cock-crow in Gower and Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Astell, Ann W.
The Peasants' Revolt: Cock-crow in Gower and Chaucer
- Published
- Allen J. Frantzen, ed. Four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell in the Middle Ages (N.p.: Illinois Medieval Association, 1993), pp. 53-64
- Description
- Both NPT and Gower's "Vox clamantis" merge the figure of the crowing cock with the figures of the preacher and the poet, a response by each poet to the social challenges of the so-called Peasants' Revolt of 1381. Chaucer's ironic identification of cock, preacher, and poet "rivals and excels" Gower's earnest one.
- Alternative Title
- Four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell in the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.